A week of legal setbacks — and one big win — for Trump's agenda
President Donald Trump's effort to reshape the federal government through a series of sweeping executive orders ran into a number of roadblocks in the courts this week, but he also scored a major legal victory.
President Donald Trump's effort to reshape the federal government through a series of sweeping executive orders ran into a number of roadblocks in the courts this week, but he also scored a major legal victory.
While judges halted — at least temporarily — his administration's moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, pause grants from the National Institutes of Health to almost two dozen states and other moves, another court allowed Trump's massive "deferred resignation" program for federal employees to move forward.
The administration was also hit with a number of new legal challenges, including one alleging the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump-created office headed by billionaire Elon Musk, is unconstitutional.
Here's a look at the number of fast-moving developments from the past week and a glance at what's to come.
Trump's biggest legal victory started off the week looking like an apparent loss in Boston federal court. U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. had extended his pause of the administration's effort to push federal workers to resign after a hearing Monday where labor unions argued it would cause their members "irreparable harm."
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